What flash drive should I buy?

[josephellengar]

Hi! I'm looking to buy a new flash drive (8 or 16gb) and thought I'd ask the community what they like. I got such great ideas when I was looking for a mouse and I'm very happy with the one I bought. I'm looking for a drive that is very small, light (I have a brick-heavy Survivor drive right now), about the size of a pendant, and has a lanyard slot large enough for a chain. Any ideas? Thanks!

[drawkcab]

I just have a basic sandisk cruzer 16gb. It's held up to a lot of abuse for two years now.

http://www.electronicsecrets.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/sand-microcruz-16gb-280.jpg

[uRock]

My Sandisk Cruiser has treated me well for more than two years, also.

[czr114]

I've always got by with ones which were free after rebate or vendor swag. They're reliable enough as is, and with the capacities doubling so quickly, it seems a bit wasteful to pay for the premium branded drives which end up obsolete or cramped all too quickly.

[Spr0k3t]

All of the drives I purchase are those without the U3 carp. Also, I look for drives where the company openly supports Linux. I've found Corsair minis are quite awesome. No caps to lose and extremely small.

[uRock]

I also use this one. It is awesome. (http://shop.canonical.com/product_info.php?products_id=707)http://shop.canonical.com/images/UBN30021%20-1.jpg

[wilee-nilee]

I have a data traveler 16 gig, that I paid twice the amount for, on a 16 gig SDHC class 10 card. The SCDH card loads and unloads at twice the speed it should generally.

[Khakilang]

I wanted a pen drive and ended with an external 2.5" hard disk. The reason is because of price. In my country, the 16GB pen drive cost rm90.00 and a 250GB Seagate 2.5" external hard disk cost rm135.00 and I just bought a pouch for the hard disk that cost about rm18.00 (exchange rate US$1.00 = rm3.20 estimate). So for extra rm60.00 I get extra 230GB storage. It is bulkier and isn't exactly pocket size but I don't find the price justifiable for a pen drive.

[Austin25]

I also use this one. It is awesome. (http://shop.canonical.com/product_info.php?products_id=707)http://shop.canonical.com/images/UBN30021%20-1.jpg
You sir, have brought on an entirely new plane of awesome to this thread. :guitar:

[simpleblue]

I just have a basic sandisk cruzer 16gb. It's held up to a lot of abuse for two years now.

http://www.electronicsecrets.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/sand-microcruz-16gb-280.jpg

I recently washed+dryed my 16gb sandisk flash drive and it still works fine. :P

[josephellengar]

Thanks for all the suggestions everybody. I would get that cool Ubuntu one, but it is imperative that mine have a keychain/necklace slot and it doesn't look like that one does. But it's good to hear that those Sandisks are so good. I was looking at those but was concerned that they looked a little flimsy. As long as I can find some way to remove the U3 carpware.

[MasterNetra]

I use a 8GB Patriot XT, no U3 crap with that. Got it off of newegg, still going strong.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220252

[sidzen]

re: removing u3

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=938086&highlight=u3+cruzer+sandisk

[giddyup306]

All of the drives I purchase are those without the U3 carp.


I have that on my Memorex. I hate it.

[PC_load_letter]

I use a 8GB Patriot XT, no U3 crap with that. Got it off of newegg, still going strong.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220252

+1. I have two 4GBs, this thing is indestructible with all the thick rubber padding around it, pretty darn fast too.

Here is a pic:
http://images.logicbuy.com/Pages/Image.aspx?url=http://images.logicbuy.com/datastore/userdeals/634171026917034000patriot-xporter-xt-flash-drive.jpg&width=200&height=150